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Bridging The Innovatino Gap At Socom, Gregory J. Ingram

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research is to provide a case study of how a highly bureaucratic organization located on a relatively inaccessible military base created organizational structures and climates to minimize innovation time and efforts. Typical approaches to government acquisition are not conducive to innovation and inhibit it in many cases. Conducting business with any government element, including the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM), can be difficult. A few of the physical and regulatory challenges include gaining access to MacDill Air Force Base, entering the SOCOM compound and the prohibition of electronic devices on the compound. Another noteworthy challenge …

Footloose Business Plan, Ashlyn Sarah Burnsed

Honors College Theses

Savannah, Georgia has over ten million visitors that spend over three billion dollars each year. The streets of Savannah are filled with countless retail stores to meet the needs of every tourist and local. Unfortunately, even with all of these stores there is still an unmet need. There is currently no store in Savannah that offers a trendy and affordable shoe. The following business plan presents a way to capitalize on this unmet market need. Our company, Footloose, has the potential to have a competitive advantage in an unsaturated shoe market. Footloose will cater affordable shoes to any women looking …

Small Business Debt Financing: The Effect Of Lender Structural Complexity., Jaume Franquesa, David Vera

Business Administration Faculty Scholarship

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) depend on a large measure on commercial banks for external capital, and US SMEs are increasingly experiencing bank credit constraints and resorting to costly alternatives. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of lender organizational complexity on SME financing shortfalls. In particular, it examines the credit shortage effects associated with the SME's reliance on bank holding company (BHC) owned, as opposed to independent, lenders.

Will Vcs Invest At A Distance During And After A Crisis? Evidence From The 2008 Financial Crisis, Samuel Wilson, Christopher Willis, Jing Zhang

College of Business (Strome) Posters

We will explore how large-scale exogenous crises impact venture capital firms’ investment scope decisions during and after a crisis. We will analyze a population of 11,564 funding rounds announced between 2005Q1 until 2012Q4 in the US. Analysis shows that the 2008 Financial Crisis caused a short-term change in the geographical areas where VCs invest, and after the crisis firms tend to look further afield to locate viable investment targets. This study will contribute to entrepreneurial finance research by offering theoretical and empirical insights on how major crises affect venture capital investment and entrepreneurial activities.

Black Women Entrepreneurs: Understanding The Challenges And Proposing Policy For Equitable Change, Nana Younge

Community Engagement Student Work

Black Women Entrepreneurs: Understanding the Challenges and Proposing Policy for Equitable Change examines the obstacles that Black women entrepreneurs face that make building successful businesses challenging. When it comes to businesses in the United States, Black women fall behind compared to their white counterparts and the impact of this transcends their communities. The most paramount consequence of the absence of successful Black women entrepreneurs is advocacy in decision making that ultimately impacts Black communities and the country at large. Black women endure systematic oppression that is directly linked to a long history of racial and gender inequality that affects their …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3950 (Developing An Entrepreneurial Mindset), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This Entrepreneurial Mindset course is for every student looking to develop a creative, ingenious attitude to succeed in any environment and is not only for students looking to start or run their own business. In this course students will develop the Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset. The entrepreneurial mindset refers to the ability to develop, recognize and pursue creative and innovative ideas in a well thought out manner, and to solve problems with an open and flexible attitude. Students will learn experientially the role and importance of empathy, human centered introspection and self-awareness along with the …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3960 (An Entrepreneurial Pre-Launch Journey), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

The purpose of this course is to take students through the process of initiating a business venture from the conceptualization phase to just before launch. The course will provide an overview of issues such as ideation, business modeling, and customer discovery. Each student will be required to produce a detailed idea for a business and learn how to build a venture in the marketplace for that idea. Students will present work throughout the semester to the class for feedback and improvement.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3962 (Family Enterprise Dynamics), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

The majority of businesses throughout the world are family owned. This course offers students an opportunity to explore and understand all aspects of a family firm, including family and business dynamics, emotions, conflict management, and communication strategies. Best practices will be discussed, as well as ways to establish governance structures for business continuity and growth. Students will understand the family, ownership, and business systems; have an opportunity to assess a family firm; and provide recommendations for the family and the firm. Students who are involved in their own family firm, or work for one, or wish to become a consultant …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 4952 (Designing For Innovation), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

In this design-focused course, creative theories will be translated into practical applications as students find and design solutions to real world problems. In doing so, this course will expose students to a variety of prototyping technologies; however, no prior technical knowledge is required. By emphasizing human-centric design practices and a “maker mindset,” students will learn how to validate an idea by creating, testing, refining, and presenting a physical prototype that has value to their target audience. The course utilizes an “active learning,” interdisciplinary approach in which students will engage in a combination of instructor-led and self-guided work both inside and …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 4960 (New Venture Management), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the ways in which individuals manage new ventures. Each student will build on their learning from MGT 3950 and apply the theoretical and practical knowledge of new venture management to a venture idea of their choosing. Concepts covered in this class include, but are not limited to, setting up the venture, communicating the opportunity, establishing and managing a company culture, managing people, financing and resources, hiring, training and leading in a changing environment.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 4967 (Technology And Innovation In Entrepreneurship), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This course provides students with a foundation to understand the role, contribution, and potential implications of technology and innovation in any organizational context. The course is relevant for students starting and managing a technology business as well as for students with an interest in taking a strategic approach to the development of technology and innovation in general. The course will provide a mix of theoretical and practical knowledge about the role of technology in entrepreneurship or any form of venture more generally. With a focus on current technologies, the course emphasizes experiential learning, develops students’ understanding of emerging issues, challenges, …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 4969 (Social Entrepreneurship), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the ways in which individuals pursue opportunities to catalyze social change and/or address pressing, unmet social and/or environmental needs. To achieve this end, students will develop their own “Theories of Change,” that will articulate how they intend to transform patterns of thought, behavior, social relationships, institutions, and/or social structures to generate beneficial outcomes for communities, organizations, and/or the environment.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 5985 (Entrepreneurship In The Wild), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This capstone course takes an experiential approach to entrepreneurship by challenging students to engage in research-based problem-solving in order to create a solution to a real-world problem. Students will chronicle their experience from idea development to execution and then present the results of their entrepreneurial journey at the end of the course.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3951 (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This course explores how opportunities for creating new value in new ways are identified. The different pathways to opportunity (i.e., recognition, discovery, and creation) are examined as a function of the interaction between the individual and the environment. Students will develop an inventory of potential opportunities and then identify the one most worth pursuing based on a combination of characteristics of the individual and the opportunity. With the chosen opportunity in mind, students will develop a user-driven value proposition that articulates how they intend to create value, which they will present at the end of the course.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3968 (The Art Of Persuasion), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

The lifeblood of any business activity is communication. This is magnified in an entrepreneurial setting. Entrepreneurs need a higher command of communication in general and of selling and negotiation in particular. Entrepreneurs need to not only sell products and services but must be able to illustrate the value of their dreams, their ventures, their company culture and more. Great ideas are of little value if you can’t persuade someone else of their worth and get their support.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3971 (Multicultural Entrepreneurial Experiences), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This course will explore the reasons individuals become entrepreneurs; how their gender and/or gender identification and expression, ethnicity, family culture, place of birth, and geographic location influence their entrepreneurial journey; the aspects that hinder and/or thrive an entrepreneurial mindset; and the overall reasons for pursuing an entrepreneurial life. Students will develop a sensitivity to the diverse entrepreneurial population worldwide, and learn the necessary skills to succeed in multicultural environments.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 4954 (New Venture Funding), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This course will explore the various ways a business can raise funds for an entrepreneurial venture. The funding sources discussed will be diverse ranging from angel investors to venture capitalists to non-profits to debt financing. The course will identify how these funding sources differ, what the risks and rewards are, and how the nature of the venture affects the funding source. Though quantitative concepts such as forecasting and valuations will be discussed, the class will mainly emphasize the qualitative issues to consider when raising funds.

2021 Ijbe V1 Front Matter, Tamra Connor

International Journal for Business Education

1. Editorial Board
2. President's Letter
3. SIEC-ISBE International

Factors Contributing To Innovation Orientation Of Singapore Technology Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes), Kok Beng Neo

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

As Singapore transitioned from economy that was primarily dependent on foreign direct investments (FDI) to a knowledge-based economy driven by indigenously developed science, technology and innovations, it became critical for the local firms to grow and internationalize. The government has thus invested heavily (of $19 billion from 2016 to 2020, and $25 billion from 2021 to 2015) in science and technology research and development. The Committee of Future Economy (CFE) concluded that in an era of rapid technological change where innovation cycles have shortened, one of economic strategy is to support our “high growth” enterprises to “scale up”. However, the …

The Effects Of Lean Management In Nonprofit Operations, Brandon Diaz

Senior Honors Theses

Many nonprofits desire to serve the segment of society that is helpless or in distress, and this paper seeks to demonstrate that the implementation of Lean management into nonprofit operations aids a nonprofit in accomplishing its vision of service. The goal of this essay is to combine Lean management with nonprofit operations to develop a more sustainable method of managing nonprofit operations. This essay will be written from a Christian point of view, so partnership with the Church will be considered when discussing Lean operations. Lean management is effective in reducing waste and increasing efficiency in nonprofit operations; however, only …